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[craig kelley <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

taken from the washington post ;
Baradell said it would take about a day for his
                  company to switch service to another satellite.
                  ``You have to make adjustments to your
                  system,'' he said. ``If it's at all possible to get
                  Galaxy 4 back in service, that's much preferred.''

                  A woman who answered the phone at
                  Greenwich, Conn.-based PanAmSat refused to
                  comment.

                  If Galaxy 4 can't be fixed, traffic would have to
                  be redirected to other satellites, said Russ Colby,
                  a vice president at Digicom Services, a Los
                  Angeles-based pager company that has 40,000
                  subscribers. He estimated up to 20,000 of its
                  customers were out of service.

                  ``It's important that word gets out. People don't
                  know it's not working,'' Colby said. PanAmSat is 81
percent owned by Los
                  Angeles-based Hughes Communications